{"id":990,"date":"2018-01-17T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=990"},"modified":"2018-01-17T22:04:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T04:04:19","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-1-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2018\/01\/17\/call-of-cthulhu-1-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 1\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That is not how I present myself to a tree.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone comes walking at me out of a tree, and I will hand them my card. I&#8217;m not a person to judge where someone lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember us saying let&#8217;s wrap this up real quick, and apparently&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That was the key to you shutting off for the evening?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to the edge of the edge of the bad decision-making.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the interception of confused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just running, not screaming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serpentine!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It already is!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the bright side, this counts as combat, so it won&#8217;t take long to wear off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alice, violence is the only answer.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Isn&#8217;t that the one you always get?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s her go-to insanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like the tree. I&#8217;m gonna go kill the tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the plan, ma&#8217;am?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m going to kill the tree.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I think it&#8217;s dead, ma&#8217;am. It hasn&#8217;t grown a single leaf.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Then it will burn nicely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be the best me I can be.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;So&#8230; sober?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I believe the best me I can be is half-drunk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are we off the desecrated ground, making a camp?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Why? There&#8217;s a campfire burning in the middle.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Actually, the tree burned out really quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best I can do is, &#8216;No, I can still see you.  No, I can still see you.'&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You don&#8217;t look like a tree&#8230; no, even if you hold your arms out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what are you all going to do?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Shoot them.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Keep walking.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Wait to see if I should shoot them.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Make occasional attempts to convince him to go back.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;So&#8230; the usual, then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am extorting them to victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nice victory you got here. Be a shame if something happened to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you feel about walking all the way around the blighted land now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You no longer participate in combat &#8211; you just stand around and shout at people?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You want to help?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not done shooting things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is now mine. It&#8217;s been in my guts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a competition to see who can fail it the most.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take it reverently.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s wet and furry.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hilariously, the witch doctor has drawn all over her face.  Hilariously, the witch doctor has drawn all over his face.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;So&#8230; are we talking dicks and dots?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How big is it?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;About the size of an opened chipmunk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I poke it with my foot. 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